Cyril Turner (11 January 1902 – 19 November 1968) was an English

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er, who played 200 first-class matches for

Yorkshire County Cricket Club Yorkshire County Cricket Club is a professional Cricket club based in Yorkshire, England. The team competes in the County Championship, the top tier of English First-class cricket. Nicknamed "Vikings". Yorkshire also competes in T20 Blast, O ...

from 1925 to 1946, and one match for the

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in 1935. Born in

Wombwell Wombwell () is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley in South Yorkshire, England. In the 2011 census, data for the town was split between the ward of Wombwell and small sections that fell into the wards of Darfield (specifically the a ...

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, England, Turner worked in the South Yorkshire coal fields before joining Yorkshire, whom he served as player, coach and scorer for thirty one years. He scored 6,132 runs at 26.20, with two centuries, against

Somerset Somerset ( , ), Archaism, archaically Somersetshire ( , , ) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in South West England. It is bordered by the Bristol Channel, Gloucestershire, and Bristol to the north, Wiltshire to the east ...

(130) and

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(115). He took 181 catches, and 173 wickets at 30.75 with his right arm medium pace, with a best of 7 for 54 against

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. He took five wickets in an innings on four occasions. He won his Yorkshire

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in 1935. He was part of the team which dominated the

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in the 1930s. Turner died in November 1968, in Wath-on-Dearne, Yorkshire. His brother, Francis Turner, played five matches for Yorkshire and his son, Brian Turner, also played twice for them.

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1902 births 1968 deaths Yorkshire cricketers Sportspeople from Wombwell Cricketers from South Yorkshire English cricketers Minor Counties cricketers Cricketers from Yorkshire 20th-century English sportsmen {{england-cricket-bio-1900s-stub